Saturday, October 29, 2011

Steamed Savory Glutinous Rice/Loh Mai Fun/Chu Bee P’ng - Day 29

Actually I have no plan to make this dish but quite a few of my readers suggested that I make loh mai kai it so after giving it some thoughts I decided to make something similar. I really appreciate all your suggestions. I am not sure if this is a typical Hokkien dish but my mom always serves this dish on special occasion especially during our family get together. We practically grew up eating this. Each time I cook this dish it makes me think of home. Being so far away from home this is sort of like a comfort food for me. I made this before and the original recipe is herebut I am going to re-post it again with some minor change as I find the one I made before had too much dark soy sauce in it. So the dish does not look so appealing.

1. Soak the glutinous rice in water for at least 3-4 hours. Drain and set aside.
2. Heat up the wok, add in some olive oil and fry the shallots until golden brown. Remove for garnish later. Add in the chopped garlic and stir-fry until fragrant.
3. Add in the meat, mushroom, carrot and stir-fry for 5 minutes. Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sesame oil, oyster sauce, sugar, salt and pepper. Mix well. Add glutinous rice and stir-fry for few minutes.
5. Add in the water, mix well and cook the rice for two minutes.
6. Transfer the rice into a steaming pan and steam the rice for 40 minutes. Stir rice every 20mins, sprinkle some water if necessary. Remove the rice, add in some spring onions, stir well.
7. Line the jelly mould with aluminum foil and press the rice into the mould. Continue steaming for another 10 minutes.
7. Let the rice cold down a bit before un-molding it from the mould. Garnish with some fried shallots before serving.

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This looks so good I wanted to dive right in. I love the presentation using the jelly mold...good idea! The I like the shallots you used too. Nothing better than recipes that you grew up eating. I have been asking my mom to give me her sukiyaki recipe I haven't had it in years! I don't want to try making any one elses just my mom's recipe first. I'll have to remind her for it again!

still wondering, how was the fried glutinous rice's taste...hmmm... maybe it's similar with japanese/korean fried rice since their rice a little bit sticky... anyway, it's look tempting esp the mushroom inside...

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